“Google, his mother says. The new new found land. Not so long ago it was only the mentally deranged, the unworldly pedants, the imperialists and the naivest of schoolchildren who believed that encyclopaediae gave you any equivalence for the actual world, or any real understanding of it. And door-to-door salesmen sold them, and they were never to be trusted. And even the authorized encyclopaediae, even them we never mistook for or accepted as any real knowledge of the world. But now the world trusts search engines without a thought. The canniest door-to-door salesmen ever invented. Never mind foot in the door. Already right at the heart of the house.”
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First thing first, It's almost quite impossible to sum up the absolute brilliance of Ali Smith's writings and how every single time she continues to blows me away.
Her poetic, lyrical and rhythmic style and extensive wordplay is unlike anything I have or will ever read.
This is the second book in her seasonal quartet resonating with contemporary themes(politics mainly) of our times and forcing you to examine our world today with the transient concept of seasons.
Book is in a series of flashbacks and flash forwards as Smith plays with time,
"that's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once."
And that's Ali Smith for you dear reader. .
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